Eight more Adamawa lawmakers defect from PDP

Eight much members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) successful the Adamawa State House of Assembly person defected from the party.

The Speaker, Bathiya Wesley, was among the 8 who resigned their rank of the governing PDP during the sitting of the Assembly connected Wednesday, marking 3 consecutive days of defections aft 1 lawmaker near connected Monday, February 23, and six followed connected Tuesday, February 24.

The PDP members who defected alongside the Speaker connected Wednesday see Moses Yerima Zah, representing Michika Constituency, and Kate Raymond Mamuno, who represents Demsa LGA and serves arsenic the House Majority Leader.

The others are Pwamwakeno Mackondo, representing Numan; Adun John Alaba, representing Uba Gaya Constituency; Bulus Kantom of Shelleng Constituency; Musa Mahmud Kallamu (Mayo Belwa); and Japhet Hammanjabu (Verre).

They announced their determination during Wednesday’s plenary session, citing the situation successful the PDP astatine the nationalist level arsenic their reason, arsenic those earlier them had done.

The latest resignations from the PDP had been anticipated, arsenic adjacent voices wrong the party’s enactment astatine the authorities leve...